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, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves. The stockdove only through the forest cooes, Mournfully hoarse. Thomson.

liar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]

To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).

A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. [U.S.] "Just How": a key to the cookbooks. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

A female cook. [R.]

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

See Cooky.

A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton.

Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.

That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. if acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. Arbuthnot.

Same as Cooly.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

Coolish; cool. [Obs.] Spenser.

The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]